http://www.nypost.com/seven/01112009/news/nationalnews/this_kids_a_text_maniac_149614.htm Greg Hardesty didn't LOL when he got his teen daughter's cellphone statement. All he could think was "OMG!" The California man's 13-year-old daughter, Reina, racked up an astonishing 14,528 text messages in one month. The online AT&T statement ran 440 pages. "First, I laughed. I thought, 'That's insane, that's impossible,' " the 45-year-old dad said. "And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible." He found it was - barely. It works out to 484 text messages a day, or one every two minutes of every waking hour. "Then I thought maybe AT&T made some mistake on the bill," said Hardesty, of Silverado Canyon. The reporter for the Orange County Register grilled his daughter on her texting habit - by text message, of course. "Who are you texting, anyway? Your entire school?" he asked. "Well, a lot of my friends have unlimited texting. I just text them pretty much all the time," she explained. She messages a core of "four obsessive texters" - all girls between the ages of 12 and 13 - on her LG phone. Reina had a karaoke birthday party, and while other people were singing, she was texting her best friend sitting right next to her. She even texted her friends to brag about the high number of text messages she had logged when her parents got the statement. Her texting soared last month because "it was winter break and I was bored," Reina told her parents. Luckily, Hardesty has a phone plan that allows unlimited texting for $30 a month. Otherwise, he estimates, he would have owed AT&T $2,905.60 at a rate of 20 cents per message. The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is 1,742, according to a Nielsen study of cellphone usage. Hardesty admits he himself punches in 900 messages a month - 700 more than average for his age group, according to Nielsen. Hardesty and his ex-wife have since placed restrictions on Reina's cellphone use, ruling she cannot text after dinner.
Damn!! I use text messaging a lot but never that much! I would say approx 1,500k was my highest number for both of sent and received messages.
(Sent + Received) txts usually <100 but never more than 400 for sure (my plan's txt package) There's NO WAY I could ever break 1000 txts a month, let alone 10,000.
If I were that chick's dad, I would BURN her cellphone. Seriously, that's ridiculous. She needs to put the cellphone down and join the rest of us in the real world. Of course, seeing as how her dad texts 900 times a month, I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I can just see them sitting at the dinner table at night.....texting their friends instead of talking to each other.
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I usually hit between 1500-2000 a month. I dont use the actual phone much...a lot easier to coordinate things between friends through text.
That also includes receiving texts...I get at least 30-40 texts a day, so even if I never send out a text, we are looking at about 1000 texts a month that I have no control over.
Umm, 1500,000 is way more than that girl. You need an automated program to crank out that many text in a month!
$30 a month for an unlimited text plan is ridiculous, also. I only pay $15. And I don't even think my phone plan shows me how many I do in a month. I'd probably guess around 2,000.
My girlfriend and her friends do this and they are going on 30 years of age. I agree, it's very stupid.
my plan is set at 1000 a month. but i have it cut off after that so i dont get charged extra. and even with trying to not send that many sometimes the last 3-4 months im running out with about a week or so to go until my plan starts over. pretty stupid but its what i get for dating a couple of 20-22 year old girls, and me being 28 im just trying to fit in
i have 1500/mo and i rarely even get close to that number i think the most i have had was 1200 one month but outside of that i usually push like 700-900 a month
if you ask customer service they should be able to give you a pound three digit number pound. you can program it in your phone and check it. for you it would just be out of curiosity, for me i check it sometimes because i have it set at 1000. whats funny is once mine hits 1000 it shuts off and people will continue to send me texts. they wont know that i dont get them. but they wont call me because you know its a phone why would you call someone?
